“Look with all your eyes, look.”

“I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!”

“On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.”

“What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!""And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!”

“Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.”

“All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.”

“There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!”